It reads おおしままち — Oshima Machi. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Oshima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oshima.
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大島町 is read おおしままち (Oshima Machi). It is a town in Tokyo Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
Oshima has a population of 7,096 across 91 km², making it the 1243rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Oshima are Higashiizu Cho (29 km), Kawazu Cho (34 km), Ito Shi (33 km).